Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection

Field notes, vocabulary schedules, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, clippings, and printed matter relating to Merriam's work with California and other Indian tribes (1898-1938). Primary material includes lists of tribes, bands and villages of California Indian tribes; ethnogeographic and ethnographic information; and lists of Indian words and their meanings. Secondary material includes Merriam's research files containing clippings and other printed matter on Indian tribes and Indian welfare in California and the West. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts of Merriam's published work on California Indians and typescripts of Robert Heizer's compilations of Merriam's work, published posthumously

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1978.008--PIC)

Related collections: C. Hart Merriam papers (BANC MSS 83/129 c); C. Hart Merriam pictorial collection (BANC PIC 1980.023); Florence Merriam Bailey papers (BANC MSS 79/139 c and BANC MSS 82/46 z)

C. Hart Merriam papers, including personal journals from 1873-1938;

Naturalist and founder of the U.S. Biological Survey (1885-1910). Studied California Indians, recording their languages (ca. 1898-1938)

Finding aid is a revised edition of Robert Heizer's Catalogue issued in 1969

Finding aid available in Library. Electronic version available on the Internet

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